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event

noun
/ɪˈvɛnt/UK/ɪˈvɛnt/CA/əˈvent/

Etymology

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

  1. derived from ēventus
  2. derived from event

Definitions

  1. An occurrence

    An occurrence; something that happens.

    • In the event of strong wind…
    • the events of his early years
    • Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.

  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

    • I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
    • Where will the event be held?

  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An end result

      An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

      • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
      • Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
      • dark doubts between the promise and event

    2. A remarkable person.

      • Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.

    3. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

    4. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the…

      A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

    5. A set of some of the possible outcomes

      A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

      • If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.

    6. An affair in hand

      An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

      • Leave we him to his events.

    7. An episode of severe health conditions.

    8. To occur, take place.

    9. To be emitted or breathed out

      To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

      • This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

    10. To expose to the air, ventilate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at event. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at event. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at event

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA